Well, not exactly, but some Googling led me to these posts, which show how to put it together yourself using the Visual Studio Shell.

Which reminds me, Craig Boyd and Bo Durban are still working on VFPStudio. Wish I could get to SWFox for the presentation Craig is giving…

Slashdot pointed out today that AVG is scanning every link on every page you go to to “protect” you against malware. Not cool for webmasters who might have to pay extra for the bandwidth. To turn it off, follow the instructions in the AVG FAQ, which are pointed to on this blog, along with some other nice commentary on AVG Free 8.

Methinks Netflix needs to work on their recommendation algorithms a bit more.

LibriVox attempts to do for audiobooks what Project Gutenberg has for printed ones. They take public domain works and have volunteers read them. Once the files are assembled (for example, chapters of a book, or multiple readers on a single short poem), they are placed in the public domain in turn.

A while ago, I did my first LibriVox upload, reading Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s (yes, that Bulwer-Lytton) “When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies” as part of their weekly short poem series, where they ask as many readers as possible to do each poem. I was one of 17 readers that week: you can hear the results on Archive.org.

This one messed me up until I figured out that splitting on comma instead of comma-space gave me a leading space in the strings, which then sorted weirdly.

H:\>perl -e “print join qq/, /, sort {$a <=> $b } split /, /, qq/2, 3, 5, 10, 19, 20, 58, 64, 65, 330, 452, 721, 797, 798, 799, 978, 1036, 1037, 1045, 1061, 1128, 1129, 1232, 1290, 1471, 858, 895, 1289, 1248, 64, 1479, 1464, 59, 65, 58, 1465, 1466, 1326, 1290, 1326, 1615, 1679/”

2, 3, 5, 10, 19, 20, 58, 58, 59, 64, 64, 65, 65, 330, 452, 721, 797, 798, 799, 858, 895, 978, 1036, 1037, 1045, 1061, 1128, 1129, 1232, 1248, 1289, 1290, 1290, 1326, 1326, 1464, 1465, 1466, 1471, 1479, 1615, 1679

Or at least, pre-Flickr. :-)

I just posted to Flickr a bunch of pictures I took before I started using Flickr regularly. Nothing particularly interesting, except maybe my pictures of the Seattle Central Library, taken the weekend after it opened, and some shots of Snoqualmie Falls from the top and bottom.

I just tried out Microsoft’s new Live Search Cashback: a search for “TabletPC” brought back 8 hits, all RAM cards. I had to search for “Tablet PC” to find what I wanted.

Ars Technica points at MusOpen.com, which is dedicated to public domain classical music. Besides scores, they take bids on performances: when the performance is fully funded, they record the piece and release it into the public domain.

Neat concept, but there are other places like Mutopia, which have much larger collections of sheet music, along with the Lilypond source files, so you can format them any way you want. There are also sites like the Wikimedia Commons, which have their own music libraries. We’ll have to see how this plays out.

Google Health has launched, but it is not HIPAA-compliant. This is not encouraging.

However, Google may only use health information you provide as permitted by the Google Health Privacy Policy, your Sharing Authorization, and applicable law. Google is not a “covered entity” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the regulations promulgated thereunder (”HIPAA”). As a result, HIPAA does not apply to the transmission of health information by Google to any third party.

Dave Winer recently added Firefly to his site: it’s a web app that lets you see who’s on the web page with you. You can track cursors, and chat back and forth. I’ve added it to blog.donnael.com as well: drop in and chat if you like. :-)

There’s further discussion about it at AlleyInsider and Bub.blicio.us.